Getting personal: Electronic learning geared to the individual can enhance - but not replace - teacher-student contact

摘要

ONCE UPON A TIME - in the 1990s - a futurist vision floated through, some math, science, and engineering departments. There were suddenly all these computers around, Offering what seemed to be limitless educational possibilities. "The sense was we could design software," recalls Margret Hjalmarson, a math educator at George Mason University. "Students would move to modules - and you wouldn't need instructors necessarily."